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And yes, I wrote (or greatly expanded) each of these. I did not just nominate a page someone else wrote and claim credit. :-) |
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This user supports Jimbo Wales in his fight against the unsubstantiated claims of lunatic charlatans. |
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About me
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My WikiProjects
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My two "Good Articles"
I have two articles in this category. Only about 0.5% of Wikipedia articles are in this category, so I am particularly proud of this!
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My six DYK articles
And yes, I wrote (or greatly expanded) each of these. I did not just nominate a page someone else wrote and claim credit. :-)
Article | DYK Date & Archive Link | List Position | DYK Hours | Pageviews | Hook: Did You Know... |
Alan Hale | 10/19/16 | 1 | 24 | 12,110 | ...that Alan Hale, who discovered Comet Hale–Bopp (pictured), said that he "predicted" its appearance would trigger suicides—and it turned out he was right? |
Bob Cenker | 6/29/17 | 8 | 24 | 9,493 | ...that RCA's only astronaut, civilian Bob Cenker, narrowly avoided catastrophe during his mission on Space Shuttle Columbia, which experienced several launch-pad aborts and almost exploded? |
Science Moms | 12/16/17 | 2 | 24 | 6,462 | ...that the goal of the Science Moms documentary is to challenge the anti-GMO, anti-vaccination, pro-alternative medicine culture affecting parents? |
Bob Nygaard | 4/12/18 | 7 | 24 | 11,127 | ...that Bob Nygaard, a private investigator specializing in psychic fraud, has been instrumental in the return of millions of dollars to victims of this crime? |
The Photo Ark | 7/24/18 | 4 | 24 | 3,377 | ...that in May 2018, the 8,000th animal was photographed for The Photo Ark project, which aims to document all 12,000 species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries worldwide? |
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots | 5/11/20 | 3 | 12 | 3,143 | ... that the Netfix miniseries Unorthodox was inspired by Deborah Feldman's memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots? |
My most significant articles
Created from scratch
Science Moms
Documentary |
Bob Nygaard
Bio: Psychic-fraud private eye |
The Photo Ark
Wildlife project/book/film |
Thomas John (medium)
Bio: Self-proclaimed psychic medium |
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Autobiographical book |
America's Frontline Doctors
Far-right organization |
Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space
Netflix documentary series |
- Also: My Kenny Biddle (ex-paranormal investigator) article was deleted via AfD but hopefully it will be resurrected.
Expanded from a stub
Alan Hale
Bio: Co-discoverer of comet Hale-Bopp |
Robert J. Cenker
Bio: RCA astronaut |
Significantly expanded or reconstructed
Canine cancer detection
Unsupported medical claims |
Weather pains
Unsupported medical claims |
Grounds For Sculpture
Sculpture park |
Forever Marilyn
Large scale sculpture |
Robert Burnham Jr.
Bio: Astronomer |
David Paulides
Bio: Paranormal author |
Monica the Medium
TV show |
Psychic Friends Network
Phone-a-psychic service |
What the Health
Pseudoscience documentary |
Gina Marks
Bio: Self-proclaimed psychic |
Miami Psychic
Book |
Kinesio tape
Pseudoscience in sports |
Havana syndrome
Cuba "sonic attack" incidents (likely mass hysteria) |
Félicette
First cat in space |
Gua sha
TCM dermatology pseudocience |
Robert S. Lancaster
Skeptical activist |
Char Margolis
Bio: Self-proclaimed psychic medium |
The Goop Lab
Netflix documentary |
Deborah Feldman
Author of Unorthodox |
Mick West
CSI fellow |
Other significant contributions
James Randi
Bio: Magician and JREF founder |
Uri Geller
Bio: Self-proclaimed psychic |
Johnny Carson
Bio: Television host |
The Tonight Show
TV show |
Cara Santa Maria
Bio: Science communicator |
Rob Schneider
Bio: Actor |
Goop
Snake oil company |
Gwyneth Paltrow
Bio: Actor and founder of Goop |
Cowspiracy
Pseudoscience documentary |
Facilitated communication
Discredited medical technique |
Warm Kitty
Song popularized on The Big Bang Theory |
Detoxification
Discredited medical technique |
Oil pulling
Oral health pseudocience |
After School Satan
After school secular program |
Pet psychic
Just OMG! |
Psychodermatology (Pending upgrade)
Dermatology pseudocience |
Tyler Henry
Bio: The Hollywood "Medium" |
Joel Sartore
Bio: Nat Geo photographer |
Modern flat Earth beliefs
This is for real! |
Taylor Winterstein
Bio: Anti-vaxx Samoan activist |
Eric R. Braverman
Bio: Medical quack |
Skeptical Inquirer
"The Magazine for Science and Reason" |
Jeanette Wilson
Bio: Conspiratorialist and self-proclaimed psychic healer |
The Dybbuk box
Paranormal hoax investigated by Kenny Biddle |
Misc
Countries I have visited
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Wiki Adventure badges
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If you're new to Wikipedia and have not yet done so, I strongly suggest taking The Wikipedia Adventure which teaches you to "Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour." These are the badges I was awarded while learning to edit:
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The sound of Wikipedia
This is just so cool... Listen to the sound of Wikipedia being edited here!
- Details:
- Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions.
- Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note.
- Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots.
- You may see announcements for new users as they join the site, punctuated by a string swell.
Important concepts
Here are some articles concerning some of the most important concepts for successful Wikipedia editing, and one bad-ass essay on fighting pseudoscience and woo on Wikipedia:
- Using primary, secondary and tertiary sources
- Verifiability
- Manual of Style: Layout (Rules for See also, References, External Links, etc)
- Wikipedia:Lunatic charlatans
- Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee Decisions on Pseudoscience
Helpful lists and articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative medicine/Popular pages
- Alternative Views articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism/Popular pages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal/Popular pages
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
- Fringe science
- Wikipedia:Fringe theories
- List of questionable diseases
Citation issues
Looking for an appropriate citation template? Try here.
Looking to slap a citation warning somewhere... See here.
Simplified DYK instructions
See here for my instructions on doing a DYK nomination.
Hey, why is Wikipedia so biased?
See here for the official WP guidance on bias and POV issues. Also, here is: the Arbitration Committee Decisions on Pseudoscience.
The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, once said the following. (This was borrowed from editor Roxy the dog):
- "Wikipedia’s policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately."
- "What we won’t do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'. It isn’t.[1][2]"
So yes, we are biased towards science and biased against pseudoscience.
We are biased towards astronomy, and biased against astrology.
We are biased towards chemistry, and biased against alchemy.
We are biased towards mathematics, and biased against numerology.
We are biased towards cargo planes, and biased against cargo cults.
We are biased towards crops, and biased against crop circles.
We are biased towards venipuncture, and biased against acupuncture.
We are biased towards water treatment, and biased against magnetic water treatment.
We are biased towards electromagnetic fields, and biased against microlepton fields.
We are biased towards evolution, and biased against creationism.
We are biased towards medical treatments that have been shown to be effective in double-blind clinical trials, and biased against medical treatments that are based upon preying on the gullible.
We are biased towards astronauts, and biased against ancient astronauts.
We are biased towards psychology, and biased against phrenology.
We are biased towards Mendelian inheritance, and biased against Lysenkoism.
On the subject of Verifiability vs Truth, there are these conflicting WP essays:
- Wikipedia rollbackers
- User en-N
- Wikipedians in New Jersey
- Wikipedian systems engineers
- Wikipedians interested in astronomy
- Pastafarian Wikipedians
- WikiProject Skepticism participants
- WikiProject Spaceflight participants
- Wikipedians interested in spaceflight
- WikiProject Atheism participants
- WikiProject Religion participants
- Wikipedians interested in religion
- WikiProject Star Trek participants
- WikiProject Alternative medicine participants
- Wikipedia Good Article contributors
- Wikipedian mechanical engineers
- Wikipedians with BE degrees
- Wikipedians in the United States
- WikiProject Atheism members
- WikiProject Religion members
- Male Wikipedians